''Beckmannia syzigachne'', the American sloughgrass, or slough grass, is an

annual Annual may refer to: * Annual publication, periodical publications appearing regularly once per year **Yearbook ** Literary annual * Annual plant * Annual report * Annual giving * Annual, Morocco, a settlement in northeastern Morocco * Annuals (b ...

or short-lived

perennial A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years. The term ('' per-'' + '' -ennial'', "through the years") is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter-lived annuals and biennials. The term is also wide ...

bunchgrass Tussock grasses or bunch grasses are a group of grass species in the family Poaceae. They usually grow as singular plants in clumps, tufts, hummocks, or bunches, rather than forming a sod or lawn, in meadows, grasslands, and prairies. As perennial ...

in the grass family,

Poaceae Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...

, found in shallow marshes or

slough Slough () is a town and unparished area in the unitary authority of the same name in Berkshire, England, bordering west London. It lies in the Thames Valley, west of central London and north-east of Reading, at the intersection of the M4 ...

s. ''Beckmannia syzigachne'' is widespread across much of

Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a Continent#Subcontinents, subcontinent of Eurasia ...

Asia Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Africa. Asia covers an area ...

, and

North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...

.Flora of China, 菵草 wang cao ''Beckmannia syzigachne'' (Steudel) Fernald, Rhodora. 30: 27. 1928.
/ref> ''Beckmannia syzigachne'' is one of only two species in the genus ''

Beckmannia ''Beckmannia'' is a small genus of grasses containing two species known generally as sloughgrass. '' Beckmannia eruciformis'' is a Eurasian perennial, and '' Beckmannia syzigachne'' is an annual grass found in North America and Asia. The genus ...

''; the other being '' Beckmannia eruciformis''. United States Department of Agriculture NRCS Plant Fact Sheet for ''B. syzigachne''
Retrieved 2010-03-07.

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Pooideae Bunchgrasses of Asia Bunchgrasses of North America Grasses of Canada Grasses of the United States Plants described in 1846 {{Pooideae-stub